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2013 Yearbook - Houston Cinema Arts Society
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Some of these are classic animation experiments (by Norman McLaren, for example), while some are quite fascinating interactive animations using iPods as the tool for audience participation. The festival headquarters is also where they have “Cinema 16,” which is a busy venue for somewhat more experimental films all during the festival. Sara gish, marian luntz, maureen mcnamara Houston Cinema Arts Festival By Nancy Wozny | 12.9.13 | Arts + Culture Texas I can’t say whether it was the best Houston Cinema Arts Festival yet, but it was my best festival. Why? I did some homework—always a good idea if time is limited. I also got comfortable with the fact that there would be excellent films and events that I would miss and hear about later. Why be overwhelmed when you can be happy with the film in front of you? Sometimes, I made decisions based on an insider tip; other times, because of the Sprinkles cupcakes down at the spacious HCAF headquarters. I could very well be getting this film festival thing down. Houston Cinema Arts Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating and illuminating the vitality and diversity of the city of Houston by presenting a festival of innovative cinema, mixed-media performances, new media, and installations to promote Houston’s economic development, enrich the film and arts environment, and foster cross-cultural understanding. Houston Cinema arts Festival | novemBer 7-11, 2012 | CinemartsoCiety.org 7 table of contents Donors and Sponsors 2 Members and Contributors 4 Directors’ Report 6 Year-Round Programs 8 Festival at a Glance 10 Featured Guests 12 Texas Talents 15 Live Performances18 Cinema on the Verge 20 Additional Guests22 Meet the Makers: Panel and Workshops 23 Film Festival Field Trips 24 Parties26 Whistles 29 board members HONORARY BOARD Joanne King HerringLarry Wright Mark Sullivan, On the Mark Communications Ashley Wehrly, On the Mark Communications John Murphy, Murphy PR Bill White Stockard ChanningJudith IveyLynn Wyatt PuBlic relAtions Alex GibneyRichard Linklater Stephen HarriganLois Stark Darla Doshier, Volunteer Coordinator Vicky Wight, Head Program Guide Writer Johnny Dekam, Be Johnny, LLc, Installations Coordinator chris Ramirez, Technical Director Robin craig, Local Travel/Hospitality Coordinator Jodi Pulman, Mint Marketing Group, LLc, Sponsorship & Special Event Coordinator Jenny conte, Graphic Designer George Martinez, Houston First corporation, Box Office Manager Julie Berry, Chief House Manager Graham Gaskill, Production Manager Hermine Benard, Outreach Coordinator Sharon Adams, SecretaryToby Kamps Pamela Powers Jim Derrick, TreasurerMary LampeAnn Davis Vaughan Tom EstusMarian LuntzMonique Ward Delicia Harvey Jolene McMaster, Assistant TreasurerMark Wawro, Vice President Michelle HevrdejsTerry MoralesMichael Zilkha, Vice Chair Maureen Herzog, Operations Manager ADVISORY BOARD S tA f f Margarita De la Vega-HurtadoAmy HobbyBeverly Pastorini Olson Charles DoveKent KubenaFranklin Sirmans Maureen McNamara Rick Ferguson Gary Meyer karen Farber Patrick kwiatkowski Sarah Eaton kent kubena charles Dove Andrea Grover Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado Vicky Wight Sarah EatonPatrick KwiatkowskiMimi Swartz Mimi Swartz Karen FarberGary MeyerVicky Wight Franklin Sirmans Rick FergusonMaureen McNamara Beverly Pastorini Olson Andrea GroverCynthia Neely cynthia Neely STAFF ADvisorY BoArD Trish Rigdon, Executive DirectorRichard Herskowitz, Artistic Director Vance Muse Delicia Harvey Jolene McMaster, Assistant Treasurer Neal Hamil Mary Lampe Toby kamps Jamal Daniel Michael Zilkha, Vice chair Mark Wawro, Vice President Jenny Conte, Graphic Designer Monique Ward Anthony Fennell, Assistant Technical DirectorTodd Green, Outreach Coordinator Marian Luntz Christopher MacMillan-Ramirez, Technical DirectorBrianna Mills, Sponsorship, Membership, and Special Event Coordinator Fredericka Hunter Stanislas Bellon Andrew Huang Sharon Adams, Secretary Michelle Hevrdejs Franci crane, chair/President Lois Stark Stephen Harrigan Rick Linklater Alex Gibney Lynn Wyatt Judith ivey Stockard channing Larry Wright Joanne king Herring Pamela Powers Angi Watkins, House ManagerAnna Sykes, House Manager cynthia Petrello Tchernavia Sessum, Volunteer Coordinator Jamaal Felix, Shane Ford, AmyJo Foreman, Christine Nguyen, Interns PUBLIC RELATIONS Mark Sullivan, On the Mark CommunicationsCarey Kirkpatrick, On the Mark Communications Nick Scurfield, On the Mark Communications PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOGRAPHY John Murphy, Murphy PR Adorable Creative, Videography / EditingAmy LephewAnna VeselovaRoswitha Vogler Daniel OrtizMichael RamirezCarl FehresMorris Malakoff BOARD MEMBERS HonorArY BoArD Ann Davis Vaughan Vicky Wight and Maureen Herzog, Catalogue WritersSusannah Mira, Local Travel/Hospitality Coordinator Bill White Julie Berry, Chief House Manager Jim Derrick, Treasurer FESTIVAL STAFF Tom Estus Angelina von Graff, Operations Manager Hermine Benard, Marketing Associate BoArD oF Directors Richard Herskowitz, Artistic Director Andrew HuangVance Muse Trish Rigdon, Executive Director Franci Crane, Chair/PresidentFredericka HunterCynthia Petrello f E S t i vA l S tA f f BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1 film and arts environment, and foster cross-cultural understanding. 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Ping Sun Charles Dove Dinah Chetrit and Rich Levy Jennifer Elkins Mary Sue McGovern susan hansen Gracie and Bob cavnar bevin dubrowski, dick hansen claudia schmuckli, emily church phoebe tudor, sandra moffett tom and ann estus christopher dack, john haba, jim furr y. ping sun, sima ladjevardian, rania daniel sharon adams rodney brisco, monique ward cecilia hellmund andrea white, michael zilkha gene oshman, Mark Wawro joy sanders, jenny conte lynn wyatt, richard herskowitz margarita de la vega-hurtado pat breen KAREN FANG, aynne kokas pamela powers and dan russ 5 directors’ report trish rigdon, Executive Director, and richard herskowitz, Artistic Director By Trish Rigdon, Executive Director, and by Richard Herskowitz, Artistic Director Houston Cinema Arts Society had a banner year, with a significant expansion of year-round programs. We also celebrated the fifth anniversary of a film festival that continued to attract major guests and feature the finest and most innovative cinematic art. YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMMING Throughout the year, HCAS partners with other cultural organizations to bring great films to Houston. In the spring, HCAS joined forces with the Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP) and the Houston Film Critics Society to present the Austin Film Society’s Texas Independent Film Network (TIFN). The Texan films we presented, all with guest artists in attendance, included When I Rise in February; Now, Forager in March; and Hands On A Hardbody in April. collaboration with Discovery Green Conservancy, QFest, and Dance Source Houston. We were happy to provide HCAS members, sponsors, and volunteers with access to several invitational pre-release screenings. They included Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, the Sundance Film Festival sensation Fruitvale Station, and the entertaining indie features The Spectacular Now, The Fifth Estate, Don Jon, The Kings of Summer, and Frances Ha. 2013 HOUSTON CINEMA ARTS FESTIVAL This year’s festival was the biggest ever mounted, with 68 events and 56 guest artists seen by over 5,200 audience members during the festival and its two-day coda, Spotlight On Houston. The packed houses and rapturous responses for the Spotlight films and filmmakers (including Vicky Wight’s The Volunteer, SWAMP’s Houston Short Film Fund winners, and Tiffany Sudela-Junker’s My Name is Faith), demonstrated both the high quality of Texas productions and their appreciation by local audiences. Spring and fall collaborations with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Film Department included an encore screening of the HCAF 2012 Closing Night film Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel. Gary Tinterow, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Peter Speliopoulos, Vice President for Design at Donna Karan New York, and Robert Turner, former curatorial assistant to Diana Vreeland and fashion editor at Vogue, took part in a fantastic Q&A recounting Vreeland’s impact on fashion. Also at the MFAH, director Chris Sullivan attended the screening of his animated film Consuming Spirits and explained how he seamlessly blended together a range of techniques to create his signature visual style. Finally, in September, in conjunction with its 9th Annual Business of Film conference SWAMP joined HCAS and MFAH Film to present the Houston premiere of Bastian Gunther’s Houston to a weekend of full houses. That enthusiasm for Houston filmmakers was evident from opening night, when a full house welcomed back Houstonborn filmmaker Zachary Heinzerling with the acclaimed arts documentary, Cutie and the Boxer. The audience was thrilled when Heinzerling’s artist-subjects, Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, joined him onstage for a rollicking Q&A. The excitement continued through the closing night of the festival proper when capacity audiences filled the Brown Auditorium for the world premiere of John Carrithers’ Houston Ballet: Breaking Boundaries and the Houston premiere of Al Reinert’s An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story. Both events had fascinating panel discussions with special guests and strong waves of gratitude from the audiences. For the third year, HCAS organized Julydoscope, a free summer evening of art, dance, and film that brought highenergy dance performances and a screening of Hairspray in It could not have been more appropriate, for this banner year of Houston filmmakers, to give the Levantine Cinema Arts Award to Houston-born Richard Linklater, who previously attended our first and third festivals. Now in year five of the Houston Cinema Arts Festival and following on the heels of his critically acclaimed Bernie and Before Midnight, Linklater rose higher than ever into the pantheon of world filmmakers. SPECIAL GUESTS While it is a vital part of the HCAS mission to promote quality Texas filmmaking, it is also important to inspire future regional filmmakers by exposing them to the greatest international talents. This year, HCAF proudly attracted several of the world’s most important and celebrated film artists, including the legendary avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, LGBT cinema pioneer Barbara Hammer, and Wild Style director Charlie Ahearn. Three filmmakers with significant reputations on the international festival circuit, Hao Jie (from China), Matías Piñeiro (from Argentina), and Juan Manuel Echavarría (from Colombia) helped to sustain the festival’s global reach. HCAS has garnered a reputation for bringing the most celebrated actors, directors, and screenwriters to the Festival, and this year lived up to expectations. Houston directors John Carrithers and Vicky Wight brought their films’ stars, Debbie Allen and Mary Beth Hurt. With the help of the accomplished independent producer, Ron Yerxa, we hosted actor Will Forte and director Fredrik Bond for back-to-back showings of films from Yerxa’s Bona Fide Productions, Nebraska and Charlie Countryman. And we attracted Pulitzer and Tony Awardwinning writer Tracy Letts, thanks to his long-term friendship with University of Houston Professor Kevin Rigdon, to present a preview of his star-studded August: Osage County and meet with School of Theater students. Finally, we are very grateful to new board member, producer Amy Hobby, for bringing us not only a sneak preview of her new comedy, Lucky Them, but, along with it, actor Thomas Haden Church, writer/producer Emily Wachtel, and director Megan Griffiths. LIVE PERFORMANCES HCAF continues to celebrate the arts by supplementing films with live musical and theatrical performances. In collaboration with the Jewish Book and Arts Fair and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, HCAF welcomed violinist Alicia Svigals, joined by pianist Marilyn Lerner, to accompany her original klezmer score for the silent classic The Yellow Ticket. Two members of The Gourds, Jimmy Smith and Claude Bernard, tore up the house at the end of the Gourds movie, All the Labor. Animator Jeremy Rourke dazzled his audience with live music and all-encompassing theater (literally, at one point, showering the audience with confetti). On the beautiful stage of the Asia Society Texas Center, the stars of The Love Songs of Tiedan, Feng Si and Yelan Jiang, entranced the audience with singing and beautifully costumed dancing. Finally, artist Barbara Hammer exemplified the innovative cinematic practice that has always characterized her work and our festival by projecting her film onto the bodies of audience members who joined her onstage at the Aurora Picture Show. All in all, these performances left no doubt that cinema as a theatrical experience is still thriving in the digital age. CINEMA ON THE VERGE Our ability to showcase boundary-breaking cinematic art was facilitated by the availability of a magnificent space in downtown Houston that became the Festival Headquarters and central site of our “Cinema on the Verge” avant-garde programming. In that space, LD Systems helped us to construct our Cinema 16 theater, where Meredith Danluck’s four-screen feature, North of South, West of East surrounded viewers on swivel chairs. Word spread through the city about this dazzling film-experience, so that the final shows were at capacity with standing room only. The Headquarters also hosted a Transmedia Showcase of interactive moving image iPad applications on three screens and Juan Manuel Echavarría’s lenticular photographic exhibit, Réquiem NN, which was complemented by a screening of his film of the same name. Finally, two of our guest artist panels were held there, including our most successful yet Meet the Makers Brunch, where an extraordinary range of guest artists, including Linklater, Piñeiro, Ahearn, and others, delighted and informed the crowded room with their perspectives on how film production and distribution is changing. FESTIVAL FIELD TRIPS HCAS values and aspires to present arts education that will inspire the next generation of artists and audiences. Each year, Festival Field Trips are offered for free to schools that bring students by the busload to attend screenings at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Project Row Houses, and Sundance Cinemas. For many students it is their first film festival experience, and their first time to talk to a film director, producer, editor, or featured actor. This year, the Festival increased the number of screenings, presenting four events including Chasing Shakespeare, Ernest & Celestine, An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story, and Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer to over 600 students. Filmmakers Norry Niven and Charlie Ahearn were ecstatic about their presentations to students, saying they were among the most rewarding experiences of their careers. THE HCAS COMMUNITY The Houston Cinema Arts Society’s programming is the joint effort of a broad coalition of partners. Leaders of Houston’s greatest arts organizations help to mount our programs and show the world how extraordinary and valued the arts are in Houston. This year, in addition to our longtime friends, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Aurora Picture Show, SWAMP, and Project Row Houses, HCAS was joined by the Deborah Colton and Zoya Tommy galleries. The galleries mounted exhibitions by visiting artists Jonas Mekas and Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, and allowed our audiences to directly encounter their visual art. The Houston Ballet and HCAS last danced together in 2009 to present Tilda Swinton and The Red Shoes, so it was wonderful to celebrate the new film about their history with so many Houston Ballet leaders, artists, and fans in attendance. HCAS has so many partners who play lead and supporting roles in the fulfillment of its mission. Reaching the fifth anniversary milestone was made possible through the steadfast leadership of board chair Franci Crane, an active board of directors; the financial assistance of corporate sponsors like Crane Foundation, Levantine Entertainment, Houston First Corporation, Anadarko Petroleum, Champion Energy Services, Amegy Bank, Silver Eagle Distributors, and many others like them who have come back year after year; the City of Houston, Houston Arts Alliance, and The Brown Foundation, Inc., who have been there from the very beginning, and media sponsors like Texas Monthly and CultureMap who help spread the word to Houston and beyond. HCAS is also grateful to the support of individuals who contribute through donations and memberships. Many times guest artists have reported that their experience with HCAS programs year-round and at the annual film festival have been among the most impactful they have experienced. The HCAS staff and Festival Coordinators, the nearly 100 volunteers who gave of their time, and the many donors, members, and sponsors are all a vital part of that impact. As we look forward to even bigger and better things in the future, we know that with your continued support, the boundaries of what can be achieved are limitless. Mark your calendars and save the date for the next Houston Cinema Arts Festival, November 12 – 16, 2014. In the meantime, stay tuned to coming events by following HCAS on Facebook and Twitter and watching for the monthly HCAS E-Newsletter. 7 YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMS LOCAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS PARTNERSHIPS HCAS partners with local arts organizations to screen new films and encores of past festivals. In 2013, partners included the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Film Department, ReelAbilities, Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP), The Houston Film Critics Society, the Texas Independent Film Network (TIFN) and the Houston Arts Alliance collaboration Houston Is Inspired. Houston screening diana vreeland: the eye has to travel screening now, forager screening JULYDOSCOPE 2013 More than 500 audience members took part in the 3rd annual JULYDOSCOPE, a free evening of dance company performances (including Impande Ye Africa, Samskriti, Frame Dance, MECA and Freneticore) followed by the film screening of John Waters’ 1988 Hairspray, co-presented with QFest. samskriti impande ye africa SNEAK PREVIEWS Every year, HCAS members get invited to free sneak preview screenings like The Bling Ring, Fruitvale Station, The Spectacular Now, The Fifth Estate, Don Jon, Kings of Summer, and Frances Ha. OUTREACH HCAS reached out to Houstonians at several events, notably at the Houston Fine Art Fair in September and the Texas Contemporary Art Fair in October. We also took part in the fundraiser Cultured Cocktails, supported by Fresh Arts. cultured cocktails sponsored by fresh arts and boheme bar AUDIENCE ATTENDING the HOuston screening 9 November 6 Red Carpet and Opening Night Party Cutie and the Boxer North of South, West of East festival at a glance November 7 Chasing Shakespeare with Norry Niven The Yellow Ticket with Alicia Svigals and Marilyn Lerner HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION August: Osage County with Tracy Letts PARIS, TEXAS BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES BROUGHTON Before the Spring After the Fall with Jed Rothstein Shepard & Dark with Treva Wurmfeld and Amy Hobby ONE CHANCE Portraits of Women Artists with Barbara Hammer Réquiem NN with Juan Manuel Echavarría November 8 Lucky Them (Sneak Preview) with Thomas Haden Church, Megan Griffiths, and Emily Wachtel Dazed and Confused with Richard Linklater ERNEST & CELESTINE BECOMING TRAVIATA All the Labor with Doug Hawes-Davis and an acoustic set by The Hard Pans The Annunciation Viola/Rosalinda with Matías Piñeiro Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer with Charlie Ahearn Sleepless Nights Stories with Jonas Mekas Art Hard with Meredith Danluck Meet the Makers: Scoring for Silent Films with Alicia Svigals and Marilyn Lerner Witness: Palestine / Pasolini’s Last Words with Barbara Hammer and Cathy Lee Crane November 9 They All Lie with Matías Piñeiro My Father and the Man in Black with Jonathan Holiff Nebraska with Ron Yerxa and Will Forte Charlie Countryman with Ron Yerxa and Fredrik Bond Texas Filmmakers Showcase with Alfred Cervantes and filmmakers Persistence of Vision with Kevin Schreck Narco Cultura with Todd Hagopian Wild Style with Charlie Ahearn Meet the Makers Brunch with Amy Hobby, Megan Griffiths, Treva Wurmfeld, Richard Linklater, Charlie Ahearn, Jeremy Rourke, and Matías Piñeiro Hip Hop Short Films with Charlie Ahearn Live Music and Animation with Jeremy Rourke Cinema Arts Celebration at Mr. Peeples November 10 Houston Ballet: Breaking Boundaries with John Carrithers, Delicia Harvey, Debbie Allen, James Clouser, Ben Stevenson, and Stanton Welch AN UNREAL DREAM: THE MICHAEL MORTON STORY WITH AL REINERT, MICHAEL MORTON, AND JOHN RALEY APPROVED FOR ADOPTION ENZO AVITABILE MUSIC LIFE PHILOMENA The Stolen Man with Matías Piñeiro The Ballad of the Weeping Spring Meet the Makers: Making Charlie Countryman and Nebraska with Will Forte, Fredrik Bond, and Ron Yerxa Time Shift: The Films of Scott Stark with Scott Stark November 11 The Volunteer with Vicky Wight, Mary Beth Hurt, and Aunjanue Ellis Honor Flight: One Last Mission November 12 Houston Short Film Fund Films with Kathryn Kane, Lauren Kelly, Douglas Newman, and Jerry Ochoa My Name is Faith with Tiffany Sudela-Junker Thank you to our program moderators and speakers! Gregory Boyd Alfred Cervantes Jamal Cyrus Charles Dove Rick Ferguson Andrew Huang Mary Lampe Joe Leydon Peter Lucas Marian Luntz Mary Magsamen Ernie Manouse Rob McKinnon Jolene McMaster Maureen McNamara James Nelson Pamela Powers Kristian Salinas Michael Sicinski Regina Scruggs Mimi Swartz Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado Monique Ward Cary Wolfe Nancy Wozny 11 rICHARD lINKLATER 2013 LEVANTINE CINEMA ARTS AWARD Dazed and Confused: Houston rebel reflects on the marijuana movie that changed it all By Joe Leydon | 11.8.13 | CultureMap featured guests In the unlikely event you need further proof that time flies — sometimes, at warp speed — consider this: Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater’s 1993 comedy-drama about teenage life in 1976 Austin, is now old enough to qualify as a full-fledged classic. And its Houston-born writer-director, who first attracted attention as a budding-auteur boy wonder when Slacker, his debut feature, hit the art house circuit in 1991, is sufficiently established as a gray eminence to start getting lifetime achievement awards. Yikes. Linklater will be on hand Friday night at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to receive the Houston Cinema Arts Festival’s Levantine Cinema Arts Award, a prestigious prize that in previous years has gone to such notables as Robert Redford, Shirley MacLaine, and, not incidentally, Linklater’s good friend and frequent collaborator, Ethan Hawke. THOMAS HADEN CHURCH LUCKY THEM (SNEAK PREVIEW!) WITH MEGAN GRIFFITHS, EMILY WACHTEL AND AMY HOBBY Film lovers delight: Houston Cinema Arts Fest packed with movie stars, major directors & great movies By Joe Leydon | 10.15.13 | CultureMap The Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actor [Thomas Haden Church] will be at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival with one of his two new movies currently awaiting theatrical release. Trouble is, HCAF spokespeople claim they can’t yet tell us which one it will be, because of the festival’s non-disclosure agreement with the film’s distributor. All they’ll tell us is that Church will be accompanied by the film’s director – Megan Griffiths, who won an audience award for narrative feature at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival with her harrowing indie drama, Eden – and producer/co-writer Emily Wachtel. Of course, any reasonably sentient human being could do a cross-check of those names on IMDB.com if they really were curious. Tracy Letts AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Film lovers delight: Houston Cinema Arts Fest packed with movie stars, major directors & great movies By Joe Leydon | 10.15.13 | CultureMap As we reported Monday, HCAF will present the H-Town premiere of August: Osage County as part of its 2013 festivities. What we didn’t report then – because we didn’t know yet – is that playwright/ screenwriter Tracy Letts will be here to introduce director John Wells’ star-studded adaptation of his award-winning play about the singularly strongwilled women of an Oklahoma family. “I’ve never shied away from discussing openly that it’s based on true family history,” Letts told me after the film’s premiere last month at the Toronto Film Festival…. “So, yes, the play is drawn from autobiographical elements….But in other ways, it’s very different from my actual family. You pick and choose the things that are helpful to you: Actual things from real life, totally made up things, things from other people’s families.” WILL FORTE, FREDRIK BOND, RON YERXA NEBRASKA and charlie countryman richard herskowitz moderating the q&a Houston Cinema Arts Festival By Nancy Wozny | 12.9.13 | Arts + Culture Texas Alexander Payne’s bleak Nebraska could possibly be the ultimate holiday movie. It features crusty old men, a bitter, cranky mom, awkward cousins, strained family get-togethers and enough regret to fill a Nebraska cornfield. Bruce Dern should get an Oscar for his raw-to-the-bone portrayal of Woody, the boozed-out father, who believes he has won a million dollars. Will Forte delivered a spot-on stoic performance as his dutiful son, Dave. Forte and producer Ron Yerxa were both in town for the Festival. 13 zachary heinzerling CUTIE AND THE BOXER with ushio and NORIKO SHINOHARA Not your typical love story: Art “bullie” husband spotlighted in Houston Cinema Arts Festival opener By Joel Luks | 11.7.13 | CultureMap What’s bewitching about Cutie and the Boxer isn’t that it delves into the mind of a struggling artist whose work was respected for decades but failed to sell. Rather, it unveils a relatable human story of a husband and wife as their skewed relationship shifts…. “After watching the movie, I am surprised that Noriko still loves me,” Ushio said during a panel chat with Noriko, Heinzerling and Houston Cinema Arts Festival artistic director Richard Herskowitz. A tender glance onstage between these two lovebirds evinced that in the face of friction, their affection for one another remains timeless, united by the urge to decipher their inner and outer world through art. I can’t express enough gratitude for my experience at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival. The Shinoharas and I had an amazing time in Houston, and we really appreciate all the hard work you put into this festival.– Zach Heinzerling Matias piñeiro 4 FiLMS Matías Piñeiro trajo a Houston su cine de mujeres By David Dorantes | 11.13.13 | La Voz Las películas del joven cineasta argentino Matías Piñeiro se caracterizan por llevar como protagonistas a dominantes personajes femeninos que tienen, además, un delicado gusto por la ironía y un ácido sentido del humor. Piñeiro visitó Houston para participar en el Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF) 2013, que se presentó a principios de noviembre en varias salas de cine de la ciudad. El cineasta argentino dice que le agrada conversar con el público que asiste a un festival de cine. “Hablar con al gente sobre lo que uno hace siempre es muy enriquecedor para un artista... Por ahí hay gente que me pregunta cosas sobre cómo o por qué usé tal iluminación, otros se interesan sobre cómo desarrollo los guiones, pero una constante es que siempre me preguntan sobre la figura de las mujeres en mis películas”, finaliza Piñeiro. with debbie allen and houston ballet representatives Houston Cinema Arts Festival By Nancy Wozny | 12.9.13 | texas talents John Carrithers Houston Ballet: Breaking boundaries Arts + Culture Texas A line around the block at the MFAH for the Houston Ballet: Breaking Boundaries documentary showed serious hometown team support. John Carrithers did a marvelous job condensing 40-plus years of history into an hour, allowing room for some vintage footage of Ben Stevenson in China, Debbie Allen’s early years with the organization and excellent coverage of the brief, but stirring 1970s, with the mysterious James Clouser at the helm. Who knew that the first rock ballet came from Houston? Carrithers managed to meld the stories we know with little known trivia about the organization. The documentary most comes alive under Carrithers’ dance-loving eye in the scenes of the company in motion today. Overhead shots of La Bayadere and wing shots of Stanton Welch’s The Rite of Spring let us breathe in ballet in all of its treasured glory. Norry Niven 15 Al reinert AN UNREAL DREAM: the michael morton story with michael morton and john raley An Unreal Dream: Justice and Reform Win Over Corruption By Robert Cavnar | 11.11. 13 | Huffington Post This weekend, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival was held in venues all around the downtown area with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston at its center; in its final session last night the festival screened An Unreal Dream, the story about Michael Morton, who was wrongly convicted of his wife’s murder in 1986 and then trapped in the Texas prison system for 25 years while our corrupt judicial system allowed the prosecutor and his successor to block efforts to free him. By happenstance last night, we were seated directly behind the Morton family, including Morton, his new wife and his son, Eric, now grown and married, who was seeing the film for the first time. The emotion they experienced throughout the film was moving. A group discussion was held afterwards with Mimi Swartz from Texas Monthly moderating, and participants John Raley, the attorney who worked for 6 years pro bono, Michael Morton, and Al Reinert, the director who made the film. Morton has become the face of criminal justice reform. He is forgiving, gracious, and peaceful after his ordeal… The film is a powerful story of pain, injustice, redemption, and reconciliation. I’m writing on behalf of our whole film team an “An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story” to thank the festival for our extraordinary 11/10 screening with you. This was actually the last big festival screening that we will hold, since we now move into our broadcast (CNN/Discovery) and distribution (First Run Features) plans. It was our last screening and also our best! Houston is very fortunate to have a festival as thoughtfully curated and warmly coordinated as HCAF. – Marcy Garriott Texas filmMAKERS showcase with alfred cervantes and guest filmmakers Five Days in the Dark By Lauren Smart | 10.25.13 | Arts + Culture Texas Local filmmakers get a little love this year with a two-day post festival Spotlight on Houston on Nov. 11-12. Houston filmmaker Vicky Wight will present her first feature film, The Volunteer, about a forty-something woman’s romantic adventures volunteering in a soup kitchen. “It’s such a thrill to be screening in Houston as part of the HCAS Film Festival,” says Wight. “Anyone who has attended the festival in the past knows how well it is curated, so being part of such a brilliant program is a true privilege.” Being part of the home team carries great meaning for Wight. People still don’t quite understand that filmmakers live among us. “I’m usually met with a sense of bewilderment when I tell people I’m a filmmaker living in Houston. It’s an unexpected city for this line of work, but, like other local filmmakers, I recognize how Houston’s unexpected beauty, space, and diversity really inform my work.” Vicky Wight with bridget stokes and mary beth hurt Tiffany Sudela-JUNKER 17 live performances Hao Jie, YELAN JIANG, FENG SI, and GE XIA To Preserve a Disappearing Art: Interview with Hao Jie By Karen Fang | 11.13.13 | Paranomomia I recently had the opportunity to interview Hao Jie, widely regarded as one of the most exciting new independent filmmakers in China. Hao’s debut feature, Single Man (2010), gained considerable buzz on the global festival circuit for its refreshingly unvarnished study of the impossibilities of romance amidst China’s current gender imbalance. Similarly, his current feature, 2012’s The Love Songs of Tiedan, strikes an equally fine balance of optimistic longing and hard-hitting social realism. The film tracks the romantic trials of a dedicated singer of er ren tai, a time-honored tradition of folk music once common in China’s rugged rural northwest region near Mongolia, from where director Hao hails. With er ren tai superstar Feng Si in the lead role, The Love Songs of Tiedan is Hao Jie’s love song to his home province and culture. Alicia Svigals with Marilyn lerner Jeremy Rourke live music and animation the hard pans: jimmy smith and claude bernard of the gourds 19 Festival on the Verge By Peter Lucas | 11.4.13 | Glasstire Not every film festival takes seriously the moving image arts as a medium for multidisciplinary innovation and an incubator for visual culture. This area of cinematic investigation that continues to keep this festival fresh, smart, exciting, and vital is, for the most part, contained in its cinema on Cinema on the Verge the verge section. Film lovers delight: Houston Cinema Arts Fest packed with movie stars, major directors & great movies By Joe Leydon| 10.15.13 | CultureMap At the ripe young age of 90, Mekas – a.k.a. The Godfather of American Avant-Garde Cinema – shows no signs of slowing down. Indeed, he won’t be content to simply screen his latest feature – Sleepless Nights Stories, a visual diary in which he rubs shoulders with Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Harmony Korine and other artist friends – at HCAF 2013. No, Mekas also intends to conduct a tour of his exhibition Life Goes On… I Keep Singing at the Deborah Colton Gallery during the festival. Maybe while he’s here in H-Town, he’ll be offering health tips on how to remain eternally youthful? jonas mekas Cinema Arts Festival By Nancy Wozny | 12.9.13 | Arts + Culture Texas barbara hammer Every year, there is one film or event that stands out for me as an anchor experience. Last year, it was Phil Solomon’s American Falls, a stunning film that I visited often during the five days. This year, Barbara Hammer’s two portraits of women artists, Lover Other and Maya Deren’s Sink, took that honor. Hammer’s immersive documentary style takes us into the worlds of these artists in such a way that we feel tethered to their lives. In Lover Other, the story of Claude Cahun and her girlfriend and lover Marcel Moore is revealed as Hammer revels in their completely original body of work. Both films are sensuous and dreamy, while fully evoking a sense of location, which was especially true in Maya Deren’s Sink. That fact that Hammer was in the room with me during the screening added to my star-stuck experience. These less definable, more boundary-crossing works are central to the spirit of the festival. They’re not the biggest draws nor guaranteed crowd-pleasers, but it’s in these programs that one finds interesting connections between various art forms, between the festival and community collaborators, and between the city and the international art world. Filmmaker Charlie Ahearn brings glimpses of New York in the 80’s By Peter Lucas | 10.31.13 | Glasstire Whiplash In the Dark Wild Style’s authenticity is obvious, its sincerity is contagious, and its existence seems miraculous. In fact, it’s so entertaining and endearing, one almost forgets that these creative activities were radical– experimental, irreverent, and even illegal. That ten years before this, none of hip hop existed, and ten years later, it would be thriving and cross-pollinating across the country and on every continent. By Jim Denevan | 11.9.13 | The Great God Pan Is Dead blog This combination of experimental and traditional narrative film is quite bracing. I was gripped by this film all the way to its rather abrupt ending. North of South, West of East is never coming to a theater near you--it only works with four screens in an “in the round” setting. You have three more chances to see it this weekend. I highly recommend you do. charlie ahearn Carpet Mannequins Vaginas Oh My! The Experimental Films of Scott Stark By Betsy Huete | 11.13.13 | The Great God Pan Is Dead blog The enormous benefit to an event like the Houston Cinema Arts Festival is that we are provided access to a wide array of filmmakers, including exciting experimental work like that of Scott Stark’s. Hopefully HCAF and Stark will continue to bring this kind of challenging work to Houston. Scott stark meredith danluck Houston Cinema Arts Festival By Nancy Wozny | 12.9.13 | CultureMap Réquiem NN, by acclaimed Colombian artist Juan Manuel Echavarría and produced by Houston resident Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado, revealed a more understated documentary style. Only the occasional sound of water accompanies the tales of the people from Puerto Berrío, who have adopted the dead bodies found in Colombia’s Magdalena River as a kind of spiritual kin. Their tales of keeping alive the memories of the disappeared is solemn, poignant, and speaks to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of continued violence. An exhibit of Echavarría’s photographs at HCAF headquarters made for a moving accompaniment to the film. juan manuel ECHAVARRÍA 21 kevin schreck additional guests persistence of vision jed rothstein before the spring after the fall TREVA WURMFELD Shepard & Dark jonathan holiff my father and the man in black todd hagopian narco cultura MEET THE MAKERS: scoring silent films with alicia svigals Making charlie countryman and nebraska with fredrik bond, will forte and ron yerxa meet the makers: panels AND WORKSHOPS Meet the Makers BRUNCH AT tHE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS 23 chasing shakespeare film festival field trips with norry niven The film festival field trip program allows schools to receive free admissions to select shows that hold educational value. following the film, artists and filmmakers discuss the movie making process with the students. this is an amazing opportunity for the students to learn more about careers in the cinematic arts. marian luntz, norry niven, franci crane ja jamel shabazz street photographer with charlie ahearn Thank you so much for the opportunity to view this film! Our students were emotional during the film. They really enjoyed this experience. Many were still talking about it this morning. As teachers, we often give our students opportunities that others would not have. This far exceeded my expectations. What a great way to spend the morning. Jennifer Crancer, Art Instructor, YES Prep Southeast My students thoroughly enjoyed their experience. Mr. Green and the rest of the staff made the process of arranging and coordinating the event very smooth. It was an honor to meet the director and producer of the film “An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story” and my students had the opportunity to ask questions following the screening. Thank you again for making this experience possible; it was definitely a highlight this year! Tamar Powell, Forensic Science, Sam Houston, MSTC Al [Reinert] and I did the student screening and the Q&A afterward. The level of the conversations and questions that came up were actually of a surprisingly sophisticated level. The students were engaged and genuinely interested in both the film and the process of making it as evidenced by their pointed and relevant questions. I think it was a terrific experience for both Al and I, as filmmakers, and the students, who got a first hand notion not only of the legal and ethical social issues involved in Michael Morton’s unfortunate incarceration but also with the technique of documentary filmmaking -- it starts with a story and the challenge for the filmmaker is to construct a coherent narrative to relate that story. Q&As can get to be a little old hat after enough of them have gone by, but the level of enthusiasm of the students elevates the experience. It was great fun. charlie ahearn John Dean, Producer Co-director, An Unreal Dream 25 festival LAUNCH PARTY at the sam houston hotel carl palazzolo, michael zilkha opening night at the mfah PARTIES ushio and noriko shinohara gracie and bob cavnar h sandra moffett, phoebe tudor duane and devon brown r chair’s reception hosted by franci crane franci crane introduces jamie niven bobbie allen, andrea white, aliyya stude, lynn wyatt gregory boyd, tracy letts and guests franci crane, gary tinterow cinema on the verge brunch hosted by patrick kwiatkowski sebastian mekas hao jie and the love songs of tiedan cast and delegation delicia harvey patrick bresnan 27 bona fide luncheon bona fide production at the grove luncheon richard and ANN VAUGHANWill FoRTE Phoebe and Bobby Tudor jake rubin Franci Crane, Fredrik Bond Cynthia and anthony petrello Richard and Ann Vaughan Richard Herskowitz, Franci Crane, Fredrik Bond ron yerxa whistles ZACH HEINZERLING, RON YERXA WILL FORTE TRACY LETTS HAO JIE designed by connie roberts USHIO AND NORIKO SHINOHARA “Houston Cinema Arts Festival gave me this Director’s Chair with a Maya Deren sink, a hat, moustache, smile- all hand carved!” ALICIA SVIGALS - Barbara Hammer JOHN CARRITHERS 29 jeremy rourke mary lampe, rick ferguson Such a great thing you are doing in Houston. It’s important to the community that there is a forum for movies to not only be shown but talked about. – Richard Linklater trish rigdon richard herskowitz, meredith danluck marilyn jones, carl palazzolo cynthia fowler pamela powers, dan russ lubov tamrazova, jonathan holiff I just wanted to say thank you for a delightful experience. I got to see so many wonderful films I would’ve never known about, much less have had the opportunity to see. The entire team was so gracious and helpful, a testimony to the entire festival. – Meredith Danluck charlie ahearn and film festival field trip students I had a great time there - your festival is a perfect mix of interesting features and serious avant-garde work, very enjoyable, and a good, supportive community. – Scott Stark We all three had a great time in Houston and wished we could have stayed longer. But there’s always next year! You have a very impressive, unique festival with great audiences and a superb staff. – Ron Yerxa Just wanted to say thank you for an outstanding time at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival! Everyone, from the volunteers to the programmers, seemed to give 110% to their work, and you could really feel it. What a well-curated, mature, inviting, and fun film festival. Honestly, it’s one of the very best that I’ve been to, and will be very tough to beat. – Kevin Schreck We met such inspiring creative souls through this experience and treasure it. – Zoya Tommy guests of cinema arts celebration at mr. peeples
